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A large herbaceos plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a sald.

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

. Carping and caviling at faults of manner. Blackw. Mag. And at my actions carp or catch. Herbert.

A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

a sterm without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the pernnial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.

A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).…

e, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. Herbert. To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]

An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

h ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose roostock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service. Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. Macaulay. The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subotdinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. Commissioner of deeds…

fect to two or more given forces (called the components) when acting in given directions. Herbert. -- Composition metal, an alloy resembling brass, which is sometimes used instead of copper for sheathing vessels; -- also called Muntz metal and yellow metal. -- Composition of proportion (Math.), an arrangement of four…